Dumping-wagon



(ModeL J. M. KIMBALL.

DUMPING WAGON.

No.265,829. Patented Oct. 10, 1882.

WITNESSES I INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

N PETERS, Phamuxha n hu. Washington. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JAMES M. KIMBALL, OF OODSTOCK, ILLINOIS.

DUMP'lNG-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,829, dated October 10, 1882.

Application filed July 10, 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern lever is also a catch for securing the closing the axles.

lever, all as hereinafter fully described.-

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved dumping-wagon with parts of the wheels broken out, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the wagon.

The bottom of the box consists essentially of the two parts a a, which are hinged at b to the central longitudinal beam, 0, so as to swing down lrom the sides (6 oi the box, said bottom parts being snfficiently short to drop between The outer edges of the parts a, are connected to a branching chain, c, and said chain connects with the short arm of a lever, f, pivoted to the side of the box at g and ranging along the side toward the front end to a point where it can be conveniently reached by the driver on the seat h,to be worked for closing the bottom after dumping the load. A couple of catches, t', are pivoted to the side of the box atj to swing under studs k, projecting from the edges of the bottoms to, to lock the bottom when shut, said catches being connected together by a rod, 1, and one of said catches has a lever-handle extension, m, for working the two catches, and said lever-handle also has a catch, it, which is made to engage the leverfby the same movement that engages catches t with the studsj, thus making a simple and efficient contrivance by which the bottoms are secured by the catches i and also by the leversf.

The bottoms a and the levers, catches, and chains are represented by the dotted lines in Fig. l in the positions they occupy when the bottoms are open and the load dumped.

I am aware that leaves have been heretofore hinged across the body and operated by levers at one end; that leaves have also been hinged on a median line and held in place by hooked levers; also. that a slide with enlargements and plates has been used to lock the bottom; but

What I claim as new is In a wagon-body, the combination, with the leaves 6t it, hinged to a median fixed beam,.c, of the branching chains 0, the levers f, and the connected pivoted catches 'i, the latter connecting with the levers f, all arranged as shown and described.

JAMES KIMBALL.

WVitnesses:

JOHN K. WHEAT, E. W. BLossoM. 

